Use IBM Watson IoT Platform

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The IBM Watson IoT Platform provides device management functions with the device management server on the platform and device management agent on the devices. These functions include firmware update, device reboot, location update, and diagnostic update. Learn how to enable the device management functions on a Raspberry Pi or a simulated device.

- [Instructor] IBM Watson IoT Platform is a fully managed,…cloud-hosted service on IBM Bluemix…designed to simplify the IoT development,…and it provides device management capabilities.…With this platform, devices are classified…as managed devices and unmanaged devices.…The managed devices are able to interact…with the IBM Watson IoT Platform device management services…using the device management protocol,…which is built on top of MQTT and HTTP.…

The managed devices can be remotely operated…to do remote reboot, factory reset,…and updates on firmware images, location,…diagnostic information, et cetera.…I will show you how to use the Watson IoT Platform…to do the firmware update.…First, let's log into the IBM Watson IoT platform portal…and IBM Bluemix portal with your IBM Bluemix account…as we need to create the IoT platform service…and a database service outside…the Watson IoT platform portal,…which can only be done through the Bluemix portal.…

To create a Watson IoT platform service…we need to go to the Bluemix dashboard to do that.…

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9/13/2017

Whether you're working with a small-scale or large-scale system of connected devices, it is crucial that you devise thoughtful, sustainable management and monitoring solutions. In this course, learn about the basics of IoT device management, and discover how to build smart objects that are easy to maintain and troubleshoot. Instructor Ryan Hu covers essential concepts such as the system architecture, key functionalities, key standards, and protocols. He also discusses the representative standards for IoT device management—the LightweightM2M standard and the oneM2M standard. He shows how to use the IBM Watson IoT Platform, and more.